INTERVIEW
Fortnight and isolation of patients compulsory in certain cases, tracing … With the extension of the state of emergency until July 24 decided this Saturday, the government intends “to consolidate the legal framework” and “to widen it” for ” integrate the challenges of deconfinement “, which should begin on May 11. A series of measures involving in particular the doctors, constituted in “health brigades”, who will have to make a “level 1 tracing” by entering the data of patients and “contact persons” on a dedicated platform of Health Insurance. Additional paid work. “It is also a way to motivate doctors”, justifies the microphone of Europe 1 the president of MG France, the first union of general practitioners, Jacques Battistoni.
A “package of 55 euros” for an “ad consultation” and tracing of family cases
“The idea is to receive people, examine them, prescribe a test for them and, as soon as we receive the result, inform them on a Health Insurance platform if it is positive” specifies the health professional , guest of the “Big Evening Newspaper” of Europe 1 this Saturday. In this case, a doctor-patient discussion begins during an “announcement consultation” to help the patient, but also to trace the “contact cases” in the family circle. A job for which each doctor will receive “a fixed price of 55 euros”.
Between two and four euros for each contact beyond the family circle
But to encourage doctors to continue their investigation beyond the family circle, the Health Insurance has provided something else. Additional remuneration will be granted “if the doctors manage to locate a certain number of people in the entourage of the patient [afin de leur] propose a screening test “, also indicates Jacques Battistoni. In detail, a general practitioner will receive two euros for each additional contact with name, first name, date of birth, and four euros if there is, in addition to this information, a means of contacting the person (telephone number, address, email).
“It makes sense that we get paid”
“The idea is to involve the doctors,” says the president of the MG France union. “We are not investigators, it is not our job to call people, but we have fairly readily available information, things that the patient will spontaneously tell us.” Elements that will also have to be indicated on the Health Insurance platform, “and it is logical that we are paid for the time” spent doing it.
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